On August 18, Facebook and WhatsApp users began sending messages to Banda, and calling him an “enemy of teachers†and threatening to “deal with†his six-year-old daughter when she returned to school. The messages followed an August 18 broadcast of Banda’s “Gwedegwede†(“To Shakeâ€) current affairs show, in which he said that teachers should not receive the type of special allowances provided to medical practitioners amid the pandemic.
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